.xinitrc for XFce patch suggestion

[Matthew Weier OPhinney]

-- Ric <fhj52ads at yahoo.com> wrote
(on Friday, 20 June 2003, 11:51 AM -0700):
> Hey Matthew Weier OPhinney:
> --- Matthew Weier OPhinney
> <matthew-lists at weierophinney.net> wrote:
> > -- Ric <fhj52ads at yahoo.com> wrote
> > (on Thursday, 19 June 2003, 06:47 PM -0700):
> > > Excellent questions. 
> > > 
> > > --- Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > Oh, I agree.  But, frankly, if it was up to me, I would
> > > remove the lines 
> > > 
> > > # Launch xscreensaver (if available)
> > > xscreensaver -no-splash &
> > > 
> > > from the XFce4 xinitrc file completely and force the end user to
> > > make a conscious decision as to whether run the monitor all the
> > > time and hopefully it will be a conscientious decision.   
> > 
> > I agree completely with this; I don't use xscreensaver because it
> > uses too many resources (I use xlock instead), but it *is* on
                              ^^^^^
I should have said 'xautolock' here. When I manually lock the display, I
use xlock, but I have xautolock for those times I walk away from the
display absentmindedly... I've got a 2 1/2 year old daughter, and that
can ruin a whole days work otherwise! ;-)

<snip>
> > The real point here is that the XFce4 xinitrc file should only load
> > those items *specific* to XFce/wm4, and provide a commented area for
> > explaining where to load other programs (or, alternatively, explain
> > about the Desktop/Autostart directory and its usage).
> 
> Oh I agree there too but (apparently) so many others want XSS running
> at startup that it was included in the  xinitrc sh  script.  It was a
> nice thing to do, ithink.  Since, ithink, it needs to be running for
> xflock to work properly with XSS, it is sort-of necessary for XFce &
> xinitrc is a good place for it 

But xfce doesn't require it. xflock will call xscreensaver *if* it is
present on the system, xlock otherwise. I'd actually like to see this
configurable (maybe in the panel settings?) since there are a number of
ways to lock the screen in X -- and not everyone uses XSS. (I'm running
on an old 366MHz machine with 256MB RAM; XSS can sometimes double my
memory and CPU usage!)

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Matthew Weier O'Phinney
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